WordPress RSS Feed Widget displays the following broad error message if it has problems to init or display a RSS feeds:

An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.

This error message can have multiple reasons (search Google). Those reasons are related to the incorporated SimplePie library. One of the main reasons for the display of the error message however is if the ->init() call for the feed object returns false.

The cause of returning false again can have multiple reasons.

One cause I did not find quite documented is the simple fact that the XML, the PCRE or the XMLREADER extension is not loaded (PHP A-Z extension listing). Normally the XML extension should be loaded nowadays, so probably while checking the server configuration it gets overlooked.

A call to phpinfo(INFO_MODULES); will show which extensions are loaded, here is some other rough script for a quick check:

I don’t get it. My nasa astronomy of the day picture worked fine until 3 days ago. since then I get the darn message. If it’s not nasa.gov (which is not) and if it’s not WP (is it not?) and I obviously didn’t change anything – hell, the only thing I’m supposed to do is … [edited] Thanks man frixos.wordpress.com

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Dear attendees, time passed by since the PHPucEU 2015 took place. We hope you all enjoyed the event and the island of Marjoca. We would like to use this email to mention a few things. The first thing we want to say is: thank you for joining us - you made this unconference with a lot of inspiring and interesting sessions happen. We would like to thank you […]

We are happy to announce that Daniel Kröger joined the Team of Organizers. Daniel joined the Unconference for two times -- and his engagement and support grew with every event. So we are delighted that he decided to join us officially! Read here, what he wrote about the PHP Unconference 2015 (in german). We have yet other news. Karl takes over the chair of […]

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Hakre's devlog, thoughts and rants on wordpress on wordpress.com. And webdesign related. And web development related. My weapons of choice are Netscape 2.01, HTML, CSS, PHP and the Gif Construction Kit.